The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

These haunting ruins belong to an ancient village that once had one hell of a view.

A holy well believed to have healing powers.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

This multicolored meandering masterpiece is Britain's longest bench.

The metal frame is all that's left of a wicker sculpture which once towered over the M5 motorway.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

A renovated henge and stone circle just south of Stanton Harcourt village.

This ruined medieval castle was the scene of Lord Robert Dudley’s seductive reception for Queen Elizabeth I.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

Before 1993, this historic-looking village—King Charles III's pet project—didn’t exist at all.

Giant naked man on a hillside.

A chalk horse cut into an English hillside in the 19th century.

In 1999, a new equine figure was cut into this English hillside near the site where an older white horse had previously appeared.

One of the smaller hillside chalk horses was designed and cut in by a group of local students in 1804.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

It's possible to walk inside one of the largest Neolithic tombs in Britain.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

This massive chalk hill carving is one of England's most beloved giant horse geoglyphs.

England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.

An architectural oddity hides in plain sight on this iconic London bridge.